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1 week ago | 
radioworld.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Will Forcing Radio Out of the Car Dash Save Consumers Money? Makers of the new $20,000 electric Slate Truck seem to think so The author of this commentary is the publisher of Inside Music Media, where this commentary first appeared. Subscription info can be found here.
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2 weeks ago | 
audioholics.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Ask a finance expert and they will tell you that nothing upsets markets more than uncertainty. Nearly every Millennial was too young to experience the 2008 recession, and yes, it has been that long. Other countries, many without the low-cost labor found in the United States, went into a recession because of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet, the U.S. quickly rebounded. Things have been good economically in the United States for an abnormally long time.
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2 weeks ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 8 minutesUpmarket headphones today are as much of a fashion statement as a technological one. For many audiophiles, wearing a pair of Bose or Sony doesn’t send the right message. For others, having a gorgeous-looking set of headphones with some audiophile sonic credibility is also appealing. That’s where the $399 per pair Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3e headphones come in.
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3 weeks ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 8 minutesToday’s audiophile gear has gotten so goodand so affordable that it is amazing. We talk a lot about Chi-Fi, but that is far from the end of the volume of top-performing audiophile gear in the market today. There are all sorts of sub-$1,000 components worthy of consideration that, in the modern market, can perform at really high levels. Global manufacturing (pre-Trump tariffs) has created real value.
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3 weeks ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 10 minutesMuch like the FutureAudiophile.com crew, Linear Tube Audio’s team tends to attend the best regional audiophile shows all over the continent. Nicholas and his team are a fun-loving group of guys, and their audiophile-grade hotel room demos always sound notably good without being anywhere close to what one would consider expensive by audiophile standards.
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4 weeks ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 4 minutesPS Audio just announced its all-new PMG Signature Series of top-of-the-line ultimate-performance audio components. The four models in the series include the PMG Signature Preamplifier, PMG Signature 512 PureStream DAC,PMG Signature Phono Preamplifier and PMG Signature SACD Transport. All are designed from the ground up to offer spectacular new levels of performance and musical realism.
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1 month ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 8 minutesBeing exiled from our home because of the Palisades Fire, we are now living 125 miles south in San Diego, which in a matter of days has jogged some long-forgotten, geographically specific audiophile memories. When I was in Music and Business school at USC, my college girlfriend lived in North County San Diego, thus I was down this way every other weekend, and I just loved it.
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1 month ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 9 minutesAnyone who has seen the 1997 feature film Boogie Nights (or lived through that times as an adult) knows that, for an American man in the 1970s, your masculinity was often significantly defined most by what car you drove. Muscle cars were popular, and luxury cars from Cadillac and Rolls Royce defined opulence at that time.
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1 month ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 9 minutesIt wasn’t all that long ago when no self-respecting audiophile would listen to the same system for both stereo and their multi-channel home theater setups. Most thought that a purist two-channel audiophile system that was carefully set up could provide almost holographic imaging through a meticulous selection of components and carefully tweaked speaker positions. Dynamics could be so tight and powerful that you could skip a heartbeat.
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1 month ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 5 minutesA trusted source with inside information into the inner-workings of Best Buy and more specifically, Magnolia, has told FutureAudiophile.com that McIntosh electronics will no longer be sold in the national chain. Initially we learned that this more would not be an immediate withdrawal but done more over a three to six months period. Others have suggested that the end date for McIntosh in Magnolia is April 4, 2025.
